"the idea in Latin in an address at Cambridge in 1563. The present perfect and ""oratio recta"" version of the Latin saying—the version one would use for a stand-alone quotation—would be ""Roma uno die non est condita"". Rome wasn't built in a day """"Rome wasn't built in a day"""" is an adage attesting to the need for time to create great things. It is the usual English translation of a medieval French phrase, «""Rome ne fu[t] pas faite toute en un jour""», from the collection ""Li Proverbe au Vilain"", published around 1190. The modern French form is «». The expression,"
"wine-casks. The builders mixed this water with the mortar and built new huts that did not collapse. Hence the proverb, ""A city without Abba Ḳolon is not worthy of the name."" The newly built city was therefore called ""Babylonian Rome"". Probably this legend was intended to show the dependence of the Roman empire upon the natural resources of the East; but it contains a number of points that still remain unexplained. The above-mentioned Roman, or, more properly, Greco-Roman, proverb is just as obscure as the name ""Abba Ḳolon,"" which, originating in some classic word, was distorted by the Jews into"
"number of errors and exaggerations in the ""Chronicle of Monemvasia"". For example, the city of Monemvasia was not built after the barbarians invaded Greece. In actuality, the city was constructed approximately four to five years (circa 582–583) before the advent of the Avars and Slavs. Another example entails the Corinthians' migration to the island of Aegina in the Saronic Gulf, which is contradicted by a correspondence (February 591 AD) between Pope Gregory the Great and Archbishop Anastasius of Corinth. Other sources that contradict the ""Chronicle"" include canons from the Sixth Ecumenical Synod (691–692) held in the Trullian Hall of the"
"providing the motive for Mark’s antifamily stance… (p. 44)."" Other prominent scholars agree (e.g., Crosson, 1973; Mack, 1988; Painter, 1999). , and talk of Jesus as the stone which the builders (or ""husbandmen"") rejected. discusses this rejection of Jesus. This references similar wording from . According to the Gospels of Matthew and Luke the Galilean cities of Chorazin, Bethsaida, Capernaum, and Decapolis did not repent in response to Jesus's teaching, so Jesus declared the wicked cities of Tyre, Sidon, Sodom, and Gomorrah would have repented, but it will be more bearable for them in the Judgement Day, and that they"
"little sunlight, and it was said only cabbages and turnips would grow there. It was forbidden to fell trees for fuel, so hot water was permitted just once a week. Only Peter's second wife, Empress Catherine, pretended to enjoy life in the new city. As a result of pressed slave labour from all over the Empire, work on the city progressed quickly. It has been estimated that 200,000 people died in twenty years while building the city. A diplomat of the time, who described the city as ""a heap of villages linked together, like some plantation in the West Indies"","
"to a king who made a ring that lacked only a signet. Similarly, the world lacked the Sabbath. And the Midrash taught that this is one of the texts that they changed for King Ptolemy (as they could not expect him to understand these explanations), making read, ""And He finished on the sixth day, and rested on the seventh."" King Ptolemy (or others say, a philosopher) asked the elders in Rome how many days it took God to create the world. The elders replied that it took God six days. He replied that since then, Gehenna has been burning for"
"expected only of men who lack understanding, and who are not ashamed to leave to posterity this token of their character. Now among all the cities under the sun Rome is agreed to be the greatest and the most noteworthy. For it has not been created by the ability of one man, nor has it attained such greatness and beauty by a power of short duration, but a multitude of monarchs, many companies of the best men, a great lapse of time, and an extraordinary abundance of wealth have availed to bring together in that city all other things that"
"name seems to derive from ""Oxmal,"" meaning ""three times built"". This seems to refer to the site's antiquity and the times it had to rebuild. The etymology is disputed; another possibility is ""Uchmal"" which means ""what is to come, the future."" By tradition, this was supposed to be an ""invisible city,"" built in one night by the magic of the dwarf king. While much work has been done at the popular tourist destination of Uxmal to consolidate and restore buildings, little in the way of serious archeological excavation and research has been done. The city's dates of occupation are unknown"
"the structure. The tale existed in varied accounts concerning the construction of the Pyramid of the Magician. According to one account, a magician-god named Itzamna was single-handedly supposed to have erected the pyramid in one night, using his might and magic. Another tale holds that when a certain gong was to sound, the city of Uxmal was destined to fall to a boy “not born of woman”. The gong was struck, one day, by a dwarf that was born unto no mother, but rather hatched from an egg by a childless, old woman (according to a tourist guide in Uxmal,"
"forty-nine years, a sixty-two-week period spanning 434 years, and a final period of one week spanning seven years. The first period of seven weeks begins with the departure of a ""word"" to rebuild Jerusalem and ends with the arrival of an ""anointed prince"" (verse 25a). This ""word"" to rebuild Jerusalem has generally been taken to refer to Jeremiah's seventy years prophecy and dated to the fourth year of Jehoiakim (or the first year of Nebuchadnezzar) in 605/4 BCE. Collins objects to this identification on the basis that ""[t]he word to rebuild Jerusalem could scarcely have gone forth before it was"
"Al-Mada'in Al-Mada'in (""The Cities""; ; Aramaic: ""Māhōzē"" or ""Mahuza"") was an ancient metropolis which lay between the ancient royal centers of Ctesiphon and Seleucia. It was founded during Sasanian rule, and was used as a synonym for Ctesiphon by the Arabs, and later by the Muslims. According to folklore, al-Mada'in was constructed by the legendary Iranian kings Tahmuras or Hushang, who named it Kardbandad. The city was then later rebuilt by the legendary Iranian king Zab, the Macedonian king Alexander the Great (r. 356-323 BCE) and the Sasanian king Shapur II (r. 309-379 CE). According to another folklore, the names"
"that when the devil was cast out of heaven, he fell in Cabool. In Cabool itself there are not exactly traditions of Alexander, but both Herat and Lahore are said to have been founded by slaves of that conqueror, whom they call a prophet. Their names were Heri (the old name of Herat) and Lahore. Candahar is said to be an older city than either of these.""” But the entire absence of the name of Lahore, or any city with a name approaching it, which may be fairly identified with it, in the writings of the historians of Alexander, coupled"
"rampart of Yajuj and Majuj"" that was ""sixty days' travel"" from the city of Zeitun (Quanzhou); Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen Gibb notes that Ibn Battuta believed that the Great Wall of China was built by Dhul-Qarnayn to contain Gog and Magog as mentioned in the Quran. However, Ibn Battuta, who asked about the wall in China, could find no one who had either seen it or knew of anyone who had seen it. Ibn Battuta travelled from Beijing to Hangzhou, and then proceeded to Fuzhou. Upon his return to Quanzhou, he soon boarded a Chinese junk owned by the Sultan of"
"several times throughout Delany’s non-Nevèrÿon work, notably in ""The Mad Man"" [1994], ""Enoch"" is mentioned in ""Genesis"" as the first city built by man, specifically by Cain’s son, Adam and Eve’s grandson, after whom it was named. In Delany's work, “Enoch” is never a big city. Rather it is a very old and small city—often much older than it thinks it is—which has forgotten its own historical origins.) These are the people who have the least sense of their own history. Their perfectly sensible wants conspire, nevertheless, to defeat their own best interests, and the only role they can conceive"
"bronze and iron smiths. In an alternate translation of Genesis 4:17, endorsed by a minority of modern commentators, Cain's son Enoch builds a city and names it after ""his"" son, Irad. Such a city could correspond with Eridu, one of the most ancient cities known. Philo observes that it makes no sense for Cain, the third human on Earth, to have founded an actual city. Instead, he argues, the city symbolizes an unrighteous philosophy. In the New Testament, Cain is cited as an example of unrighteousness in and . The Targumim, rabbinic sources, and later speculations supplemented background details for"
"within a single day. Since the whole achievement was considered impossible by normal human means, the man was later believed to have called on the devil for assistance, and he died in poverty as a result. As a historic memento to victory over the Swedish army in 1645, the local Petrov Cathedral rings noon an hour earlier, at 11 o'clock because the locals and Swedish army were in stalemate and the Swedish general said he would withdraw if his army had not won by noon; the bell ringer tricked him by ringing the bell an hour early. Keeping his word,"
"found. There is only one people who know how to build temples and what to do in them when they are completed. That people is the Latter-day Saints. The temple in Jerusalem will not be built by Jews who have assembled there for political purposes as at present. It will not be built by a people who know nothing whatever about the sealing ordinances and their application to the living and the dead. It will not be built by those who know nothing about Christ and his laws and the mysteries reserved for the saints. But it will be built"
"the city of Carthage in Libya."" After ending his quotation from Menander with this sentence, Josephus summarizes Menander’s list of kings as follows: The whole period from the accession of Hirom (Hiram) to the foundation of Carthage thus amounts to 155 years and eight months; and, since the temple at Jerusalem was built in the twelfth year of King Hirom's reign, 143 years and eight months elapsed between the erection of the temple and the foundation of Carthage. For a discussion of the importance of this passage in establishing the chronology of the kings of Tyre, see below, and also"
"ultimately recovered it from Israel. In Joshua 15:22, an Adadah is mentioned. According to Cheyne and Black, arguing partially on the basis of a Septuagint reading of ""Arouel,"" this Adadah may in fact be the result of a scribal error, with the text originally reading ""Ararah"", meaning Aroer. According to a prophecy in the Book of Isaiah, ""the cities of Aroer"" will become forsaken; however, the Septuagint relates this verse to Damascus in Syria, translating as ""deserted for ever"" (see Isaiah 17). In the Mesha inscription, line 26, it is mentioned as having been built by the Moabites. Aroer (Moab)"
"king who instructed his servants to build a great palace on a dunghill. They built it for him. Thereafter, the king did not wish to hear mention of the dunghill. Similarly, the Mishnah taught that one should not teach about the Creation to more than one student. A Midrash (rabbinic commentary) explained that six things preceded the creation of the world: the Torah and the Throne of Glory were created, the creation of the Patriarchs was contemplated, the creation of Israel was contemplated, the creation of the Temple in Jerusalem was contemplated, and the name of the Messiah was contemplated,"
"the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.” But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.” So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city."
"and he comments in his travel log that ""Between it [the city of Zaitun in Fujian] and the rampart of Yajuj and Majuj [Gog and Magog] is sixty days' travel."" The translator of the travel log notes that Ibn Battuta confused the Great Wall of China with that supposedly built by Dhul-Qarnayn. In the Quran, it is none other than the Gog and Magog people whom Dhul-Qarnayn has enclosed behind a wall, preventing them from invading the Earth. In Islamic eschatology, before the Day of Judgement Gog and Magog will destroy this gate, allowing them to ravage the Earth, as"
"Citadel, but legend has it that its construction was extremely tough and difficult to complete. Each time it seemed near completion, it was undone at night by a horde of evil spirits. An Dương Vương burnt incense, prayed, made offerings, and evoked the gods to help him. One night, in a dream, an old and frail man with long, white hair came to him and told him the only person who could help him build his citadel was a golden turtle that lived somewhere around Cổ Loa. A few days later, while sitting in a boat on the river and"
"for it will last only as long as Allah wills, and will fall down to pieces when the time of my Lord's promise shall come. Then no power in the world shall be able to keep it safe and secure."" Some people have entertained the misunderstanding that the wall attributed here to Dhul-Qarnain refers to the famous Great Wall of China, whereas this wall was built between Derbent and Dar'yal, two cities of Daghestan in the Caucasus, the land that lies between the Black Sea and the Caspian. There are high mountains between the Black Sea and Dar'yal having deep"
"not found despite extensive archaeological excavations. Dalley has suggested, based on eighteen years of textual study, that the Garden was built not at Babylon under Nebuchadnezzar, but in Nineveh, the capital of the Assyrians, by Sennacherib, around 2700 years ago. She deciphered Babylonian and Assyrian cuneiform, and reinterpreted later Greek and Roman texts, and determined that a crucial seventh century BC inscription had been mistranslated. While none of Nebuchadnezzar's inscriptions ever mentioned any gardens, Dalley found texts by Sennacherib about a palace he built and a garden alongside that he called a ""wonder for all people"". The texts also described"
"atmosphere of the tower caused forgetfulness. Rav Joseph taugh that Babylon and the neighboring city of Borsif were both evil omens for the Torah, because one soon forgets one's learning there. Rabbi Assi said that the name ""Borsif"" means ""an empty pit"" (""bor shafi""), for it empties one of knowledge. Rabbi Phineas taught that the land of Babel had no stones with which to build the city and the tower. So they baked bricks until they built the tower seven miles high. The tower had ramps on its east and its west. Laborers took up the bricks on the eastern"
"the modern city, archaeology has barely touched the ancient city. The city may have been of Semitic origin; it is first mentioned as Tarsisi in Neo-Assyrian records of the campaigns of Esarhaddon, as well as several times in the records of Shalmaneser I and Sennacherib, the latter having the city rebuilt. A Greek legend connects it with the memory of the Assyrian king Sardanapalus (Ashurbanipal), still preserved in the Dunuk-Tach, called 'tomb of Sardanapalus', a monument of unknown origin. Stephanus of Byzantium quotes Athenodorus of Tarsus as relating another legend: Much of this legend of the foundation of Tarsus, however,"
"during the Yuan dynasty ""ca."" 1346, had heard about China's Great Wall, possibly before he had arrived in China. He wrote that the wall is ""sixty days' travel"" from Zeitun (modern Quanzhou) in his travelogue ""Gift to Those Who Contemplate the Wonders of Cities and the Marvels of Travelling"". He associated it with the legend of the wall mentioned in the Qur'an, which Dhul-Qarnayn (commonly associated with Alexander the Great) was said to have erected to protect people near the land of the rising sun from the savages of Gog and Magog. However, Ibn Battuta could find no one who"
"the Danube or the Euphrates frontiers, his court supplied from the rich gardens and sophisticated workshops of Roman Asia, his treasuries filled by the wealthiest provinces of the Empire. Constantinople was built over six years, and consecrated on 11 May 330. Constantine divided the expanded city, like Rome, into 14 regions, and ornamented it with public works worthy of an imperial metropolis. Yet, at first, Constantine's new Rome did not have all the dignities of old Rome. It possessed a proconsul, rather than an urban prefect. It had no praetors, tribunes, or quaestors. Although it did have senators, they held"
"Zoan Zoan (Hebrew: Tso`an) was, according to the Hebrew Bible, a city of Egypt in the eastern Nile delta. Numbers 13:22 says that it was built seven years after Hebron was built. Psalm 78:12,43 identifies the ""field of Zoan"" as where Moses performed miracles before Pharaoh to persuade him to release Israel from his service. The city is also mentioned in Isaiah 19:11, 13, Isaiah 30:4 and Ezekiel 30:14. The Greek Septuagint in all of these verses uses the Greek name ""Tanis""; both ""Tanis"" and ""Tso'an"" are ultimately derived from the Egyptian name for Tanis, ""Djanet"" or ""Djan"" (Modern Arabic"
"Pergamea Pergamea is a fictional settlement in the ""Aeneid"", the epic poem written by Virgil between 29 and 19 BC. Pergamea is the name of the city that Aeneas and his crew began to found on the island of Crete. In Delos, Apollo had delivered them an oracle telling them that they would found a new city in their homeland. Aeneas and his men had misinterpreted this to mean Crete, but the oracle had meant Italy. When they began to build the city, they were struck down with disease. Apollo appeared to Aeneas in a dream and told him that"
"is first attested in the first two works of Western literature, Homer's ""Iliad"" and ""Odyssey"". It does not occur in the Hebrew Bible, but occurs three times in the New Testament in the Book of Acts. In the 6th century BC, Hecataeus of Miletus affirms that Phoenicia was formerly called ""χνα"", a name that Philo of Byblos subsequently adopted into his mythology as his eponym for the Phoenicians: ""Khna who was afterwards called Phoinix"". Quoting fragments attributed to Sanchuniathon, he relates that Byblos, Berytus and Tyre were among the first cities ever built, under the rule of the mythical Cronus,"
"by throwing them into ditches of fire, which are called ""Ukhdūd"" in Arabic. According to the experts, the city was built between the 1st century BC and the 1st century AD. The story of these people is mentioned in the Quran, in the chapter al-Burūj. Madā'in Ṣāliḥ (or Mada'in Saleh) (), also called Al-Ḥijr (الحجر), is an ancient city located in northern Saudi Arabia, about 1400 km to the north of Riyadh. Madā'in Ṣāliḥ is considered to be one of the most important and oldest ancient cities in the country. Madā'in Ṣāliḥ lies to the northwest of the city of"